Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89410	An answer to George Keith's libel. Against a catechism published by Francis Makemie. : To which is added, by way of postscript. A brief narrative of a late difference among the Quakers, begun at Philadelphia.	Makemie, Francis, 1658-1708.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M307; ESTC W24940	61,656	129

Holy-Ghost who are One GOD is Great and Glorious and ought to be Reverently conceived expressed in Scripture words which the Holy-Ghost hath Taught but not in words of Mans Wisdom Page Ninth Tenth In mentioning the Offices of Christ being Three Viz. Prophet Priest and King he should have mentioned how that not only without us he did perform these Offices and now is both Priest and King in Heaven whither he is ascended but that also within us Viz. All true Believers in him he is both Prophet and King and Priest also who offereth up their Prayers unto God and by whom they have access unto God beside that Christ is not only King Priest and Prophet over his Church but Bishop Shepherd Physitian Captain and Husband c. as the Scripture declareth And that he saith Christ revealeth the Will of God to us by His Word and Spirit in Page 10. He delivereth this matter very barely and obscurely for he does not tell people where they may find the Spirit of God he doth not instruct them That the Spirit of God is in them to teach them and open the Scriptures unto them And tho' he delivereth diverse things in his Catechism concerning the New Covenant yet he neglecteth a Principal matter belonging to the same Viz. That God hath Promised in his New Covenant to teach His People Himself and to dwell in them and walk in them and that they shall be his Temple c. Page 10 11. Although he mention the death and Sacrifice of Christ for sinners yet he doth not well that he doth not hold forth that Christ died for all and tasted Death for every man as the Scripture expresly declareth which is a most great and weighty testimony of Gods universal Love for sinners Page Eleventh Tho' he say The Holy Spirit worketh faith in us and Uniteth us to Christ yet he doth this very barely and obscurely yea in contradiction to his and his Brethrens Doctrine who say all inward Divine Revelation and Inspiration is ceased since the Apostles Days if so then the Holy Spirit hath ceased to work or operate on mens hearts for his operation is not in the dark or in a blind and insensible manner but in Light and Demonstration sensibly and clearly revealing his power in them opening the eyes of their understanding and thence it is that the Spirit of God is called in Scripture the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation and that Spirit worketh in true Beleivers Page Eleventh That he calleth Regeneration a New and Spiritual Birth by the Spirit of God is true but this Contradicteth His and His Brethrens Doctrine who say they have no infallible Spirit and all Divine Revelation is ceased and that there is no immediate communion with God or his Spirit which is False Doctrine and contrary to Scripture and the Saints Experience who know that as they are Born of Gods Spirit so they are sensibly Fed and Nourished by the Spirit of God and Suck the Breasts of their Heavenly Mother Jerusalem from above and feel themselves embraced by the same as sensibly as the Child feeleth the Mothers Embraces and see and behold Her Beauty hear her voice and Language and all this is Spiritually and Inwardly known and witnessed in all True Believers Again that he saith True Believers are United to Christ is true and very comfortable but is in contradiction to His and his Brethrens Doctrine who say it is Blasphemy to affirm that Christ is really in the Saints for if he be not really in them by himself they cannot be United to him for true Union requireth the near presence of the things United one to another as the Body cannot be United to the Soul if the Soul be not really in the Body and all true Believers are United to Christ in Heaven by their being United to the measure of him in themselves as the Members of the Body are United to the Head by being United to a measure of the same Life and Spirit in them that is in the Head Page Eleven Twelve He defineth Effectual Calling to be A powerful call of God whereby he calls and draws sinners out of Sin into Grace which as it is true so is in contradiction to him and his Brethren who say All inward calling and speaking of God is ceased and there is no other Voice or Word of God but the Scriptures and yet he confesseth all have not that Effectual Calling who have the Scriptures Again he concradicteth by saying that God calleth and draweth sinners out of sin unto Grace and yet in Page Twelve saith All are still sinners And in Page Thirty saith The Godly cannot keep Gods commands perfectly And His Brethrens Doctrine is that the Saints sin in every Though Word and Deed. Page Fifteen He saith Justification and Adoption are acts of God without us and make only a Relative change but no real change and are compleated at once And in Page Sixteen He saith Justification Adoption and Sanctification once had can never be wanted all which are False and hurtful Assertions and contrary to Scripture for Gods Justifying Believers is his speaking peace to them in their Consciences and Absolving them from Condemnation as a Judge absolveth or cleareth an Accused Person and surely that is within and if not within he should have told where without if he mean in Heaven thi● can be no assurance nor comfort to any unless it be revealed and done also within in mens hearts Again that God maketh any men to be his Children without a Re●change is most absurd is not Faith and Regeneration a real change and none are made the children of God but by Faith and Regeneration and again to say that Sanctification and Justification cannot be lost is mo●… absurd and serveth to flatter people i● great sins yea the greatest as if they were still Saints for according to this False Doctrine David remained a Saint and perfectly Justified when he committed Murder and Adultery and at this rate the worst of men may be Saints while such but the Scripture saith No Murderer nor Unrighteous Person can Inherit the Kingdom of God but they must be washed c. But if they still remain Saints after Murder they may inherit Gods Kingdom for all the Saints are in measure in Gods Kingdom Page Twenty-four Concerning the Sabbath he expresly Contradicteth the Scripture which expresly enjoyned the seventh Day to be kept and not indifferently one of seven Page Twenty-six He most grosly wrongeth and most falsely accuseth the People of God called in scorn Quakers saying that the Quakers and all Profane Persons are enemies to a Sabbath but it is no new nor strange thing that Gods People is numbred with Transgressors of the greatest sort seeing Christ our Lord and Head was so used by men high in an outward Profession and the people called Quakers own Christ to be the True Spiritual Sabbath or Rest of all True Believers the substance and thing signified by the

AN ANSWER TO George Keith●… Libel Against A CATECHISM Published by Francis Make●… To which is Added by way of ●…script A Brief Narrative of a Late Difference among the Quakers begun at Philadelphia BOSTON Pri●…ed by Benjamin Harris 〈…〉 of the BIBLE over-ag●… 〈…〉 MDCXCIIII Imprimatur Increase Mather March 31st 1694. Christian Reader SVch is not only the Impiety Irreligion and Contradiction to clear Scripture Light which the Doctrine of the Quakers is stuffed withal but the Unreasonableness Nonsense and Self-contradiction which 〈◊〉 ●arries with it that it may well seem a wonder to men of Vnderstanding that it hath not long since been Exploded and that the Abetters of it have not been a shame and ridicule to themselves and one to another● and that it had not died alone if no attempts had been made against it by so many worthy Champions of the Truth and indeed there can be no other account given of it but that God in his awful and righteous Judgment hath left men to Believe a Lie because they received ●ot the Truth in the Love of it 〈◊〉 so a Deceived Heart hath turned them aside that they cannot say is there not a Lie in our Right hand and were it not that there are so many Labouring of such ignorance as to think that holding our peace were a yielding up the cause it were pity at this time of day to take so much notice of their Scriblings as to waste Paper in replying upon them But since there is a kind of a necessity for it lest the sacred Oracles should see● 〈◊〉 some not sufficiently defended without it it may not be thought unadvisable to comply with the second part of the Wisemans Antithesis Prov. 26.5 and though no Truth is to b● foregone yet when the Foundations ar● stricken at and those Articles on which our hopes for Eternal Life are built b●…Vndermined it is time to arm in Defence of them The following Discourses then will b● found both seasonable and profitable 〈◊〉 which the venome and sophistry of ●rand Apostate and one of the mo●… 〈◊〉 caried Supporters of that totteri●… Fabrick of Enthusiasm are detected and the perverse spirit which God hath sown among them in suffering them to lay open each others follies is discovered by the Reverend and Judicious Author We do therefore Commend him and these Labours of his to the Blessing of God who alone can recover the fallen settle the wavering and confirm such as stand and make the faithful Endeavours of this his Servant become instrumental to these Desired Ends. Increase Mather Iames Allen Samuel Willard Iohn Baily Cotton Mather An Epistle to the Reader Reader I Cannot but admire the Instability of many who are so easily and soon drawn to Embrace and Espouse that perswasion and way of those called Quakers and that because of an outward and seeming Sanctity that is to be found and to be discerned among many of them consisting only in Negatives making up a Pharisaical Righteousness made of those things that are not peculiar to Quakers only of not Swearing Drinking and Ranting but if they would but cautiously Look before they Leap they would find the principles of many of the Reformed Churches as much against all those and many more evils as theirs can be and thousands of Professors exceed them in a shining Holiness and Christian Universal Piety and though others walk disorderly and not answerable to the Gospel of our Lord Jesus is not to be imputed to our Profession Principles or manner of Worshipping God otherwise all Religion would soon be rejected and Quakerism it self would be soon deserted The most of their Religion is composed of Negatives for many of them are as void of the positive part of Religion as worshipping God in the publick private and secret Duties of Religion as many moral Heathens who if they had but Learned their usual tone and grown sullen and unmannerly might pass for Quakers all over the world If we take a view of their principles in believing every one of them severally by themselves and the Books of particular Writers they are not only repugnant to truth contrary to Gods Word and the publick received Doctrine of the Churches of Christ for many Centurys past but also dangerous and damnable They cannot be looked upon as a Church having not unanimously-and fairly or faithfully published all their opinions and principles which is the cause many Espouse they know not what they have not in any of their Writings declared their Church Order Constitution Government nor Discipline They have no orderly way of Admission for Teaching Officers but as many men women as say the Spirit of the Lord is upon them must be received though they can give no convincing proof but to those already Deluded to their way from which they want the pure and powerful Preaching of the Gospel and all Administration of Sacraments which they slightly ridicule rather than own they hold or maintain a common Christ in all even in the Reprobate in whom the Spirit of God says Christ is not a sufficient saving Light and grace in all even the children of Darkness denying Original and Damnable Guilt in any Infants even in their natural State Railing against Singing of Psalms denying the Resurrection of the same Body many of them scoff at the Imputed Righteousness of Christ for our Justification and Salvation maintaining an absolute perfection for many years in this Life by a Popish Possbility of keeping all Gods Commands of which neither they nor Papist could ever in any age produce one known Instance Reader I offer here some Sheets to thy impartial perusal which was occasioned by a Paper writ by George Keith and delivered by his own hands into the hands of Mr. George Layfield at Rehoboth in Pocamok from whence as many as read may soon conclude this debate was first set on foot by themselves and by promoting it gave occasion for Laying open both their Principles and their practises more in these corners of the World then they have yet been In which Answer I have given Reply to all the Calumnies and Charges in that Paper against my Catechism which I am obliged to Justifie and Defend And the only Apology why I have not Enlarged in the proof of some points and particularly of our Doctrine concerning the Sabbath though I have sufficiently vindicated my Charge because they are fully handled by others And concerning this Subject I Recommend Keith and all of them to Caudree and Palmer Mr. John Brown sometime of Holland and Mr. Matthew Crawford and whoever answers them shall answer me If any should Censure me for my tediousness in answering I had finished it a year ago but by reason of my tedious Affliction not Transcribed until now I had a visit from Keith at my house in Virginia which though promised and intimated by his Harbinger to be on Fryday was not performed until Saturday in the Afternoon by the uncertainty of their coming was

Grace of God within and also that Christ was only a Spirit in Heaven and had nothing of the Body and many of the● denying the Day of Judgment and any Resurrection but what they have already attained John Wil●ford said Christ was a Mediator for no Drunkards 〈◊〉 wicked persons but for his own Disciples many 〈◊〉 them denied Gods Presence in all his Creatures Arguing most ignorantly and blasphemously if God be in Herbs and Grass then who tramples on the● tramples on God and this occasioned a new Disput● whether God be present in Lice Some denyin● they were any part of the Creation another Preaches that Christ Cureth mens Souls perfectly at once and makes them free of all sin and when we 〈◊〉 perfect we are Kings and are not to Beg or Pr● to God for our selves another says Whether 〈◊〉 Body that was Crucified be in Heaven Let 〈◊〉 Church determine one Samuel Ginnings declared 〈◊〉 a Meeting That to do Gods Business we needed Go● Wisdom but to do our own Business as men 〈◊〉 needed it not another affirmed That a man migspeak unsound Words in the Life and at another Meeting the same man bids us wait That the Scepter might depart from Judah that Shiloh might come Is it not evident from these gross impertinent and abominable Ignorances and Blasphemous Heresies That God has justly given them over to a Spirit of Delusion ●o believe the grossest Lyes that ever was hatcht ●nd that for their ambitious and deceiving pretences ●o unwarrantable Inspirations Another Quarrel was G. K's Objecting against their Discipline as too Loose but for my part I never knew nor heard ●…y they had that was purely Ecclesiastick what they pretended to was most absolute and arbitrary ●ho ' I understand of late G. K. had Composed a new Draught in many particulars which tho' not allowed 〈◊〉 Reading at their Yearly Meeting yet was sent to the Yearly Meeting at London for their Approbation 〈◊〉 Sanction of which I shall give my Reader a small ●ast in these following particulars 1. That all faith●l Friends shall give in a few words less or more a ●ure Confession unto the Truth generally Received 〈◊〉 Friends 2. If Friends be satisfied with this Con●…ssion they are to express their Christian Love and ●gnifie their owning them by taking them by the ●nd or giving the hand unto them 3 That all friends who have Children come to years of Discre●on whom they have Instructed in the Principles of Truth that they further Labour with their Children 〈◊〉 be willing to be Received into the Number of friends in the manner above mentioned 4. Whe●er there should not be Elders and Deacons Chosen ●…d Appointed and Named by the Consent of the hole Church for the Help and Assistance of the ●iends of the Ministry 5. That no raw and unsea●ed persons do presume to speak or pray in the Meetings until they give proof of their sound Knowledge Experience and Spiritual Abilities to their Elder Brethren the Elders and the Church 6. That no Friends joyn in Marriage with any but such as are Received into the Society of Fiends by a solemn Confession of their Faith and Profession of Truth in the manner aforesaid These are but a few of many Articles of the like nature which had a very cold Reception that tho● they did not allow it a publick Reading yet cry'd it down as downright Popery but sure if this take place Quakers will look with another Face then ever they have yet done and many of their silly ignorant and impertinent and blaspemous Teachers shall be laid aside as useless And the Breach was so great that the two Emissaryes from London T. W. and J. D. was so far from accomplishing a Reconcileation that they Condemned him for the Separation and pronounced Woes against him and J. D. compared the Difference there to Childrens falling out about trifles sure these men so much admired at Barbadoes and elsewhere discover both their ignorance and weakness in joyning with the strongest Party the Magistrates and looking upon the Doctrine of Christ Crucifyed and the Sufficiency of the Light within to be but Trifles Lastly G. K. is blamed for calling W. Stockdal and a whole Meeting ignorant Heathens but says Keith it there is Light sufficient to Salvation in all men without the man Christ then an honest Heathen is a true Christian hence every man may Learn That honest Heathens are good Quakers o● Quakers are good Heathens George Keith having his Sentence Lay under Charges and no possibility of obtaining as he says 〈◊〉 any redress or Gospel Order but it is strange that any man of Sense should expect order from I gnorance Distraction and Confusion as the whole Scheme of this Controversy appears to be to every Rational and considering Man he at Length breaks off separates from their Society and sets up for himself First at his own House and generally since at the Barbado's House in Philade phia and as he endeavours to Justify himself from all former Imputations so he essays a Vindication of the Late Separation which he does by a Pamphlet called the Reasons and Causes thereof which I shall give my Reader as Followeth 1. Because Thomas Lloyd so far failed in Proving his Charge against G. K. For denying the sufficiency of the Light within and after Judgment was passed by a Monthly Meeting at Philadelphia the 22 d of the 12th Month 1691. Would not give forth a Paper of Condemnation of his False Charge but any may perceive K's cunning who not only escaped the Just Judgment of this Meeting according to ●uakers Principles but by denying the charge with a Reservation made his accuser guilty for as he declared before and since saying the Light within is not suf● ficient without the Man Christ Without us 2. Reason for his Seperation because K's Antagonists kept a Publick Meeting in the Afternoon at the Bank without the consent of the whole Body of Friends there which K says should be universal Unanimous and not by any Plurality of Votes and so G. K. and his party kept a Meeting for that Day in the Afternoon at his own House which he called Private and finding as they say they resolved to continue the Seperation which is still done I would Amimadvert the Reader that the Second Reason is Frivolous arising from a Nicety and circumstance of Place which as carryed by a Plurality of Votes tho' K would not submit to it without the Unanimous Consent of all which he says is the allowed method of Friends but it is not to be doubted if the Plurality had determined for him he would never have gone about to invalidate the determination and if the Unanimous consent of all be requisite in such triflles we expect K will do nothing in greater Matters without it 3. Reason because most Gross and Uuchristian Errors against the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith are held by divers of them that are Publick Teachers